Through what she did and wrote she showed how, in the daily business of life, we can make sure that we are advancing along the path of perfection. She called it “the little ways of spiritual childhood”. Benedict XV said that it holds “the secret of sanctity” and Pius XI declared that “human society would…
Little queen I met in Lisieux, Can I forget that glow in your eyes? Dressed up as though grown up matured, On your way to enter Carmel. And your father, carrying your bags, Could not reach up, you were too fast. You were joyful, leaping all the way All you wanted was to be His…
Ka Gospel ba mynta ka sngi ka batai ïa ka phang jong ka jinglong jingman jong u Khristan batlot bad uba shang kylleng ki jaka, uba leh pop bad u bym I don shuh ka mon ban sangeh ban leh pop. La pynshai kyllum ïa kane, “Lada u hynmen u leh pop pyrshah ïa phi”.…
An implication of the first principle is that every person, from the moment of conception to natural death has an inherent dignity and a right to life consistent with the dignity that is ours as human beings. A just and good society is an impossibility if the sacredness of human life is not seen as…
Every person is created in the image of God and redeemed by Jesus Christ. Consequently, every person is worthy of respect simply by virtue of being a human being. Pope Francis’ criticism of the new economic culture is an intense wish for human dignity and love for humanity. He expresses concern for the poor and…
Hold me up, my Lord, I wanna walk
Let me die, just to live in you.
For You and You alone, my Lord,
Can fill my being, quench my thirst.
How will it be if our philosophers die and reach heaven? Will they confuse the people up there as they confused those on earth? This skit is an imagination of what can probably happen when philosophers reach heaven.
It was when I was in Mintong, Arunachal Pradesh that I happened to meet Mongdap Wangpan, a Wancho girl of about eight years. She amazed me with her strong will to learn. She was in the class, with her baby brother tied close to her back as most tribal women do in those areas. She…
Consecrated persons’ call to be bearers of God’s love is expressed in effective family ministry. Anyone who has met the Lord and follows him faithfully is a messenger of the joy of the Spirit. The fruitfulness of one’s pastoral ministry proceeds from the realization that joy is not a useless ornament. It is a necessity, the foundation of human life. In their daily struggles, every man and woman tries to attain joy and abide in it with the totality of their being.
“The joy of love experienced by families is also the joy of the Church,” says Pope Francis as he begins the post-synodal apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia. The family is the basic cell of society and the fundamental ecclesial community, the Church that is the home. As the Church is a ‘family of families’ the joy experienced among the members of a family reaches out also to the wider community of church as a whole.
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